Thanks for your comments.
> Check whether it is GC-bound by using +RTS -sstderr.
Well yes, it does a lot of GC (there's no way for the compiler
to optimize away the list of primes) because that was the point
of the example: to confirm (or disprove)
that GC hurts parallelism (at the moment).
INIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
MUT time 13.23s ( 7.98s elapsed)
GC time 14.12s ( 14.11s elapsed)
EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
Total time 27.35s ( 22.09s elapsed)
%GC time 51.6% (63.9% elapsed)
> Try a recent HEAD snapshot if you can, or wait for 6.12.1.
I did with 6.11.20090425 and it coredumps with +RTS -N2 (on x86_64)
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x41001950 (LWP 1007)]
0x000000000044e831 in yieldCapability ()
Current language: auto; currently asm
(gdb) where
#0 0x000000000044e831 in yieldCapability ()
#1 0x000000000042d8d3 in schedule ()
#2 0x000000000042e485 in workerStart ()
#3 0x00002b680cdcdfc7 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#4 0x00002b680d0b25ad in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
but it runs with +RTS -N2 -q1 (I don't know exactly what this does)
and the numbers did not change much - down from 22 sec to 21 sec maybe)
PS: yes, I confirmed that the OS can run the two "primes" enumerations
(as separately compiled executables) in parallel in 6 sec wall time.
Best regards, J.W.
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